First 1000 days: New Zealand Mothers’ perceptions of early life nutrition resources

Hildreth, Jillian Rae; Vickers, Mark H.; Wall, Clare; Bay, Jacqueline

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“…It is intended to promote awareness of the importance of early-life nutrition and encouraging the optimisation of their child's lifelong health, thus reducing the risk factors associated with later-life diseases. Exploration of first time New Zealand mothers' perceptions of the booklet identified the overwhelming pressure to comply with the list of recommendations, which resulted in feelings of shame, guilt, and a desire for more support from healthcare providers and society [67]. This evidence highlights the need for DOHaD knowledge to be made available in resources that can be used by health professionals working alongside women and their partners to support healthy child development [68].…”

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The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Adolescence as a Critical Lifecourse Period to Break the Transgenerational Cycle of NCDs—A Narrative Review

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Bay

Tu’akoi

et al. 2022

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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, represent a significant and growing global health burden. To date, a primary focus has been on treatment approaches to NCDs once manifested rather than strategies aimed at prevention. In this context, there is clear evidence that a range of adverse early life exposures can predispose individuals towards a greater risk of developing NCDs across the lifecourse. These risk factors can be passed to future generations, thus perpetuating a cycle of disease. This concept, preferentially termed “developmental programming”, forms the basis of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) framework. To date, DOHaD has focused on preconception, pregnancy, lactation and, more recently, paternal health at the time of conception. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that investment in the window of adolescence is perhaps the most critical developmental window. Adolescence is a period where lifestyle behaviours become entrained. Therefore, a focus on adolescent behaviours, health literacy and emotional development may afford the best opportunity to break the cycle of NCDs. As the next generation of parents, adolescents should therefore be considered a priority group in advancing appropriate and informed actions aimed at reducing NCD risk factors across the lifecourse. This advancement requires a more comprehensive community understanding and uptake of DOHaD knowledge and concepts. NCD prevention strategies have typically entailed siloed (and often disease-specific) approaches with limited efficacy in curbing NCD prevalence and breaking the transgenerational transmission of disease traits. Recent findings across various disciplines have highlighted that a lifecourse systems approach is required to establish a comprehensive and sustainable framework for NCD intervention. A whole community approach with a particular focus on adolescents as potential agents of change is necessary to break the disease cycle.

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The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Adolescence as a Critical Lifecourse Period to Break the Transgenerational Cycle of NCDs—A Narrative Review

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Tu’akoi

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“…For many women this is clearly not the case, and even armed with the most up-todate evidence and best of intentions, mothers may struggle to follow pregnancy nutrition and infant feeding guidelines, leading to increased anxiety and feelings of inadequacy and guilt. 29,34 While the articles in this review did span a range of populations such as adolescents, tertiary students and health professionals in addition to parents, it is telling that all of those studies assessing parental awareness of DOHaD were heavily biased towards mothers with very limited participation from fathers. 24,27,28,30,31 This appears primarily due to selected avenues of recruitment being focused towards antenatal and maternal healthcare clinics and is problematic in that it reflects a disproportionate focus on the role of the individual woman as the provider of a nurturing early-life environment, at the exclusion of myriad other influences outside her ability to control.…”

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Understanding the importance of the early-life period for adult health: a systematic review

Hildreth

Vickers

Buklijaš

et al. 2022

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Evidence clearly indicates that the nutritional and non-nutritional environment and level of physical activity during the early-life period from preconception through infancy has a lifelong impact on the child’s health. However this message must be communicated effectively to parents and other stakeholders such as grandparents, health professionals, policymakers and the wider community in order for positive change to occur. This systematic review explores how both awareness and understanding of the long-term effects of the early-life environment have been measured in various populations and whether any patterns are evident. Ten articles were retrieved via a search of Embase, Medline and Scopus databases for peer-reviewed studies designed to assess participants’ knowledge of the links between early-life exposures and adult health. Eligible articles spanned a wide range of countries, population groups and research methods. Three common themes were identified using thematic analysis: 1. a tendency for researchers to conflate participant understanding of the issue (the WHY) with a knowledge of key phrases and nutrition guidelines (the WHAT); 2. bias in both researchers and participants towards short-term thinking due to difficulty conceptualising long-term risk; and 3. challenges in comprehending the complexity of the evidence resulting in oversimplification and the overemphasis of maternal factors. Taken together these findings underscore the importance of a multi-level, whole-of-society approach to communicating the evidence, with the goal of influencing policy decisions as well as building a foundation of community support for parents and prospective parents to create a healthy early-life environment for the long-term wellbeing of all.

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First 1000 days: New Zealand Mothers’ perceptions of early life nutrition resources

Cited by 2 publications

References 37 publications

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Adolescence as a Critical Lifecourse Period to Break the Transgenerational Cycle of NCDs—A Narrative Review

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Adolescence as a Critical Lifecourse Period to Break the Transgenerational Cycle of NCDs—A Narrative Review

Understanding the importance of the early-life period for adult health: a systematic review

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